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Everyone knows of Desert Island Discs, the Britain’s longest-running radio show apart from the Daily Service; in it, a ‘castaway’ chooses 8 records to take to a desert island in the event they are shipwrecked.This is slightly different, with an emphasis on life-changing music.Music accompanies our most intense moments, inspires us, boosts us and occasionally blows our minds.In ‘Tell-Tale Tracks’, five guests will choose and talk about three pieces of music each which have helped to make them the person they are today and to do what they do.Confirmed are:

LINDA BELLOS:Leader of Lambeth Council 1985 – 88, who came out as a lesbian in 1980.One of the main scapegoats of the Tory Press, she was attacked as ‘loony left’ for introducing equalities provision in services which, thirty years later, are regarded as standard by most authorities.Of mixed heritage, she now works as an equalities consultant.

ANDREW LUMSDEN:Member of the Gay Liberation Front 1970-73, co-founder of ‘Gay News’ 1972, ‘Financial Times’ journalist, painter and tour guide.He has just completed ‘Henry Labouchere and the Sodomites’, a biography of the life and times of the MP whose infamous amendment martyred Oscar Wilde and thousands of other gay men.

ROZ KAVENEY: Trans activist, poet, science fiction and fantasy novelist, cultural commentator with an encyclopaedic knowledge of US TV series and pop culture, and author of 'Tiny Pieces of Skull', the hilarious ground breaking semi-autobiographical novel of transition and transphobia.

WILL McCALLUM:Young environmental activist who acts as a political adviser to Greenpeace.He lives his beliefs, founding a bicycle co-operative Broken Spokes, working to challenge militarism in all forms in Forces Watch, and now a leading activist (he would question the word ‘leading’) in Sexual Avengers.Sexual Avengers reclaim London’s LGBT History, and take direct action to protest a variety of causes.They organised the Queer Bridge (Vauxhall) in the anti-Trump demonstration, Bridges not Walls.

OLAY FAY:Charismatic young Irish-Nigerian singer-songwriter influenced by the motown his mother was crazy about.A great soul voice and a songwriting style influenced by the many kinds of music he met on his travels.

Members of the audience are also invited to bring a single life-changing track to the gig, and talk about how it affected them..MP3 format please, on phone, SD card, or memory stick.